Pacific States Newspaper Directory

San Francisco City and County California Newspapers, 1894

San Francisco County

Population, 298,997. The city of San
Francisco embraces the whole county. The city and county covers
an area of 46 square miles, of which Golden Gate Park takes up
1,013 acres, the Government Reservation at the Presidio about
1,200 acres; Buena Vista Park, 20 acres; Mountain Lake, 20
acres; and the other city squares, 119 acres. The city has 1,200
miles of streets. San Francisco is the business center and
commercial metropolis of the State of California, which exports
over $120,000,000 worth of the products of the soil every year
in the shape of wheat, wool, wine, raisins, gold, silver, and
other metals and fruits. It has a mint that coins more gold than
any other mint in the world, and a custom-house of which the
receipts, in proportion to population, are unequalled. The
imports for the past year were $$'2,36.0,906; exports,
$52,701,282. San Francisco, pop. 298,997